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Re: [lojban] The Knights who forgot to say "ni!"



In a message dated 8/31/2001 1:08:23 PM Central Daylight Time,
rob@twcny.rr.com writes:


If you performed the kind of "evaluation" people are suggesting for {jei} all
the time, then saying {la spat. gerku} would be instantly replaced by "true"
and communicate nothing.


Good evidence that *that* evaluation is not the right one, though how it
arises from {la spat. gerku}, which does not contain (jei}, is a little
obscure.  Assuming that Spot is a dog, the truth value of {la spat. gerku} is
indeed True, but True isn't a sentence or even a proposition, so it could not
replace the sentence. Sounds like at least use-mention confusion, if not
something more complex.